My cats mostly like household items used as toys like spare or old shoelaces, soda bottle-caps, plastic milk gallon twisties, pen caps and crushed cigarette packs tossed across the room as a ball. My boy Arnie will fetch them and bring them right back, dropping them into my lap so I'll throw them again for him. He loves the crinkly noise. He's a plastic/cellophane freak! He loves to chew QVC bags too.

Another different "toy" I give my male cat Arnie is I let a few flies in the house once in a while for him to catch and eat. The flies never last long and it's good exercise for him. Bugs never last long in this house!

Of the store bought toys, both my kitties love most any toy on a wand, especially the "Cat Dancer". The Cat Dancer keeps them entertained for hours. The only other store bought toy they really love would be those small realistic mice with the fur on them. They love to carry those around and cry out like they've caught real prey.

I also grow catnip outside for them.

It seems every cat who's owned me has had it's own personal toy preference. My kitty Molly who passed last year, used to love those fake mice and sparkly balls.

Wand toys and toys like the Cat Dancer are the most interactive but many times cats will drag them around the house to play alone too.

Small balls (golf), those little plastic cups that are on the top of cold type medicine bottles, small stuffed animals, (any jewelery I forget to put away... - or any small object I forget to put away...), crinkled copy/Xerox paper, hair ties (with out the metel), scrunchies, etc......

Any thing I have ever purchases as a specific cat toy goes unplayed with...

All my cats have their favorites...it very individualized! One of my cats loves "Skitter Critters." They are small catnip-filled mice purchased from the store. She hides them all over the house. I find them in odd places. My cat hold the 'skitter' between her paws and licks it and rubs it on her face...I think it is the cutest thing ever!

My other cat loves (and I mean seriously LOVES) coffee stirers and straws. He bats them around the house and stashes them under rugs.

To give them additional exercise, I play with them each night with toys on sticks/strings (to simulate prey) or a laser.

Have fun exploring toys...you mentioned the ping pong balls...I put mine in the tub. The cats go wild in there as it is a closed unit and the balls do not get lost as easily.

My kitty loves the feather on a fishing pole toy I have & she also has 5 of these spikyballs that I got for her. Whenever I go anywhere, when I come home, I find them in my bedroom or closet! She picks them up & brings them into my room to play!

ETA: Another favorite toy is the plastic ring off of mayonnaise jars! She hauls them to me & drops it so I can throw it for her! I think she's part dog & likes to play fetch!

I buy the ping pong looking balls that have holes in them. I guess they are for golf practice? My kitties bat these things all over the house! When I clean I find them all under the chairs and couches! They carry them in their mouth meowing! I don't know what it is about these balls but they always walk around meowing with one in their mouth! So cute!

All my cats have their favorites...it very individualized! One of my cats loves "Skitter Critters." They are small catnip-filled mice purchased from the store. She hides them all over the house. I find them in odd places. My cat hold the 'skitter' between her paws and licks it and rubs it on her face...I think it is the cutest thing ever!

My other cat loves (and I mean seriously LOVES) coffee stirers and straws. He bats them around the house and stashes them under rugs.

To give them additional exercise, I play with them each night with toys on sticks/strings (to simulate prey) or a laser.

Have fun exploring toys...you mentioned the ping pong balls...I put mine in the tub. The cats go wild in there as it is a closed unit and the balls do not get lost as easily.

I forgot about the straws... And, the hiding everything under the rugs - or hiding them in my bed... I often find little treasures under the covers when I go to bed - including grasshoppers and crickets...

I buy the ping pong looking balls that have holes in them. I guess they are for golf practice? My kitties bat these things all over the house! When I clean I find them all under the chairs and couches! They carry them in their mouth meowing! I don't know what it is about these balls but they always walk around meowing with one in their mouth! So cute!

My Cora use to do that with the golf balls. To this day I do not know how she was able to get it in her mouth...

Also, my cat likes to watch things disappear under other things. For example, if you have a small towel on the bed and pass a shoelace or straw underneath very slowly until the end of it is just peeking out from the towel. My cat loves to pounce on the ends. You can also do this under a newspaper on the floor.

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Our routine- I get up in the morning and make DH a cup of Lipton tea. The tea bag comes in a little crackly paper packet. I take the packet and wad it into a tiny ball Buddie is watching me intently at all times. i then say "Wrappie? Want this wrappie, Bud?" The tension is at fever pitch. Finally, I throw the wrappie into one of the corners in the kitchen, with Buddie in hot pursuit. Upon seizing the wrappie, Buddie takes it to one of his toy corners and hides it with the rest of his toys. If no one in your house drinks tea, just buy a box of Lipton Wrappies and throw the tea bags away. Buddie also LOVES gift bags and paper grocery bags, little toy mice, yarn dolls, plastic seals off sealed jars and frozen items and other cat stuff. HINT- fancy tea bags do not necessarily yield the best wrappies. Lipton really is the best.

Son's cat, milk jug rings, she loves to fetch. i find them under every closet door in the house.

My 5 kittens, an item by the Da Bird group, Go cat, a stick with tiny cable attached and a mouse on the end of the wire. i tire sooner than them. only drawback, they run about $10 and the wire is wrapped tightly but comes undone after a while. the mouse has held up great. they stalk it and when they catch it try to carry it off to eat it :) such fun. I found on amazon and at petco. also they love the turbo scratch pad chaser with light up ball.

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